Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from read more

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best read more

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you started. He or she is going to read more

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you started. He or she is going to sit where you are sitting and when you are gone, attend to the things which you think are important. The fate of humanity is in his or her hand.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went read more

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.